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abrogate

/ˈæb.ɹəʊ.ɡeɪt/US/ˈæb.ɹoʊˌɡeɪt/

abrogate verb: to annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.

Verb

abrogate (third-person singular simple present abrogates, present participle abrogating, simple past and past participle abrogated)

  1. (transitive) To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.
    • But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old.1660, Robert South, “The Scribe instructed, &c.”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume 2, page 252
    • Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate.1796, Edmund Burke, Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.
  2. (transitive) To put an end to; to do away with.
  3. (transitive, molecular biology) To block a process or function.

Adjective

UK/ˈæ.bɹə.ɡət/US/ˈæb.ɹəˌɡət/

abrogate (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Abrogated; abolished.
    • Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that...1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 4

abrogate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

abrogate in Tamil

ரத்து செய், செல்லத்தகாததாக்கு, வழக்கொழியச்செய், விட்டொழி, ஒழித்துக்கட்டு

abrogate in Urdu

منسوخ کرنا, معطل کرنا, رد کرنا

abrogate in Bengali

আইন করা, প্রথারহিত করা, রদ করা

abrogate in Malayalam

റദ്ദുചെയ്യുക, റദ്ദാക്കുക, നിരാകരിക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
abrogate in Kannada
ರದ್ದು ಮಾಡು, ವಜಾ ಮಾಡು, ಕಿತ್ತು ಹಾಕು
abrogate in Persian
لغو کردن, باطل کردن

Examples of abrogate in a sentence

  • The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated.1961, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1”, in Suicide Act 1961ᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, page 766:
  • The rule known as the “year and a day rule” […] is abrogated for all purposes.2000, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, “Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance 2000”, in Government of the Hong Kong Special...

Synonyms of abrogate

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Antonyms

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Forms of abrogate

third-person singular presentabrogates
present participleabrogating
past participleabrogated
pastabrogated
alternative form (obsolete)abrogen

Past tense of abrogate: abrogated

Origin of abrogate

First attested in 1526, from Middle English abrogat (“abolished”), from Latin abrogātus, perfect passive participle of abrogō (“repeal”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ab (“away”) + rogō (“ask, inquire, propose”). See rogation.

Words formed from abrogate

Questions about abrogate

What does abrogate mean?
Abrogate means to annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.
What is abrogate in Tamil?
Abrogate in Tamil is ரத்து செய், செல்லத்தகாததாக்கு, வழக்கொழியச்செய். See Abrogate meaning in Tamil.
How do you use abrogate in a sentence?
The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated.
What part of speech is abrogate?
Abrogate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce abrogate?
Abrogate is pronounced /ˈæb.ɹəʊ.ɡeɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of abrogate?
The past tense of abrogate is abrogated.

Words near abrogate in the dictionary

  1. abrocomes
  2. abrocomid
  3. abrocomids
  4. abrode
  5. abrogable
  6. abrogate
  7. abrogated
  8. abrogates
  9. abrogating
  10. abrogation
  11. abrogationism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abrogate (page history and authors); abrogate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abrogate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abrogate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abrogate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abrogate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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